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For hundreds of years women were treated as somehow incomplete, or dangerous, if they didn鈥檛 have a (male) partner. It used to be illegal for women to live alone in some parts of the UK and, until much more recently, single women weren鈥檛 allowed mortgages. And then there鈥檚 the cat lady stereotype. Amanda Vickery, professor of history at Queen Mary University of London, tells Adam Fleming how the stigma around women鈥檚 singledom has evolved, and how it鈥檚 fading.